Francisco Nicolás Gómez Iglesias is tired, unmotivated and in low spirits. The young man from Madrid, who needs no introduction, was arrested on October 14, 2014, accused of posing as a government authority to facilitate various private activities and businesses. Eight years and two sentences –no signatures– later, the one known as Little Nicholas faced a new trial for an alleged scam since last week. Her promised and extraordinarily precocious career as an event organizer, lobbyist and intermediary in different businesses was blown up in the Internal Affairs operation of the National Police promoted by the Vice Presidency of the Government, then led by Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría (PP), to the one that Fran Nicolás said he worked when he was barely 20 years old. While he tried to haggle his entry into prison, the one that was hanging for a good season the most popular character in Spain tries to get income with "low profile" activities, in relation to ABC sources close to the young man with direct knowledge of his tasks. The eight years that he has spent between protesting and going to court have taken their toll on his spirits and that of his family, since they have the feeling that "this will never end, but there is no other choice but to continue fighting despite the personal cost," they say. from your environment. Words almost identical to those that Fran Nicolás himself, now 28 years old, explains to the journalists who await him at the entrance and exit of the courts through which he has to continue passing. And to whom he attends with as much correctness as ease and with a point of spontaneity. In addition to the personal cost, there is the economic one, to which I know that he does not have the plus of the posters for someone to hire him. That's why he does "what they let him and as far as they let him with all the discretion in the world, because businessmen don't like that exposure, so the fewer people know about it, the more", adds his closest circle. There are several possible businesses that Francisco Nicolás has underway, but two stand out. The first is a blockchain “personal project” to invest in cryptocurrencies and NFTs, another digital asset linked to popular cyber currencies. He plans to launch the project “at the end of this year or the beginning of the next”. On the other hand, approximately ten days ago, with a production company, the filming of a documentary series about his life began. The sources consulted by this newspaper assure that there are "several platforms" interested in acquiring the rights and that negotiations are advanced with one of them. A good story Sources from the audiovisual sector state that this is a product that could have very good audience prospects, due to the surprising story of the young man and the popularity he achieved. He himself will have his media story, truncated by a joint operation of the Vice Presidency of the Government, Internal Affairs of the National Police and the National Intelligence Center (CNI) when it transpired that he used documents to fake official positions. On the other hand, Francisco Nicolás Gómez is also carrying out activities related to the world of football –he was a regular in the best boxes–, specifically “sports communication and institutional relations for certain teams”, always according to the sources consulted. “They have publicly called him a scammer for eight years, despite the fact that the only accusation of fraud that he has is that of the current trial and the allegedly scammed businessman has denied it”, they defend their environment: “The damage at the media and personal level has already tedious". Judicial situation And it is that Little Nicolás has been facing the different trials in which his adventures have ended for more than a year. Although he had already starred in other minor causes, such as injuries and slander to the CNI in a couple of interviews, in the summer of 2021 he began to receive prison sentences. The first was when the Provincial Court of Madrid imposed a year and nine months on him for falsifying the DNI so that a friend for him to the Selectivity in 2012. The following month, in July, he was sentenced to another three years for a trip to the Galician town of Ribadeo in 2014 in which he passed as a link between the Vice Presidency of the Government and the Royal House. His defense has appealed both sentences before the Supreme Court, for which he currently remains at liberty pending the latter's first decision on whether he was admitted for processing and, in that case, whether he revokes or reduces seven sentences. Related News Little Nicolás, sentenced to three years in prison with extenuating psychiatric anomaly The Prosecutor's Office asks for six years in prison for little Nicolás for posing as a member of the Government for a scam in the sale of a farm In addition, this 24 of October began a third trial in which Francisco Nicolás is accused of trying to defraud a businessman in the sale of a plot of land in Toledo, again posing as a collaborator with the Government and the CNI, also in 2014. The Prosecutor's Office asks for 6 years in prison and a fine of 18.000 euros. The alleged swindled and his lawyer have already declared that "there was no scam" and that they did not feel cheated by the young man. In fact, the businessman himself, Javier Martínez De la Hidalga, declared in court that at that time he thought that the 20-year-old was "a precocious genius." And she has been compared to Amancio Ortega, founder of Zara. Although that statement by the affected person contradicts the scam for which Little Nicolás is being tried, he is also accused of falsifying documents and usurping public functions of the institutions in the presumption of collaborating. Like documents with members that they falsified in a Work Center store, the well-known chain of copy shops, or high-end cars that they rented and with which they jumped traffic lights using lights like those of the Police. This sentence will resume next Monday with the declaration of Francisco Nicolás himself. How has done other cases and as his defense has advanced, he will allege "personality disorder", an argument that Justice itself has already recognized in the sentence for Ribadeo, in which he was sentenced to three years in prison, instead of of the seven requested by the Prosecutor's Office, because the court heard that he suffered from a "psychic abnormality" of a narcissistic nature that affects his behavior, although partially. That is why legal sources close to the young man trust that he will not have to go to prison for any of these cases. During the investigation of the trip to the Galician town, the judge sent an official letter to the CNI to find out if Fran Nicolás had provided him with “labour or professional services, either directly or through an interposed company, indicating the concept, accompanied by a copy of his employment contract (if any). ), as well as the remuneration received by the same. Letter to the CNI regarding his relationship with Little Nicolás ABC The response, signed by the then Secretary of State who led the CNI, Paz Esteban, and dated December 20, 2021, neither confirmed nor denied: “I convey to you the impossibility of this CNI for, without violating the protection that the rules of our legal system provide to classified information, communicate any information that may lead to knowledge of the activities of the CNI. The young man has always defended having been an informant and collaborator of this organization. Response from the CNI regarding its relationship with Little Nicolás ABC Despite the fact that the absence of a response from the CNI in similar requirements is common, the truth is that in this same case it did respond to a letter to that effect on January 13, 2016 The Center assured that Luis Antonio Ruiz de la Morena, one of those involved in this case, "does not have and has not had any type of direct or indirect link with the CNI," according to the documentation in the summary. Response from the CNI about another person involved in the trip to Ribadeo ABC Upcoming appointments The three above are not the only court cases that Little Nicolás has pending in the coming months. Next Tuesday, the day after the trial for the Toledo farm resumes, another begins in which he is summoned as a witness by the recording of the retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo to those responsible for the National Police and the CNI sober the investigation that led in the arrest of Francisco Nicolás himself. At the beginning of February, the trial will begin for what is known as the Police Mafia case, in which the young man is accused of accessing information from the databases of the Ministry of the Interior that several agents provided him with in exchange for promises and money.
